{"id":30584,"date":"2023-04-11T22:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30584"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:22:02","slug":"nominations-for-abingdon-on-thames-town-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30584","title":{"rendered":"Nominations for Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023041101.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI live in the Abbey Ward and so far have had a visit from one candidate, Cheryl Briggs, the Green Candidate. Looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdon.gov.uk\/statement-of-nominations-2023\">list of candidates<\/a> for the Abbey Ward, no Conservatives are contesting the two seats. Normally Lib-Dems and Conservatives would contest every seat.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023041102.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nEven stranger is that in Northcourt Ward, the two Lib-Dem candidates will get in without a vote. Nobody else has stood.<\/p>\n<p>For the 19 town council seats, there are:<br \/>\n18 Lib-Dems<br \/>\n7 Conservatives<br \/>\n6 Labour<br \/>\n2 Greens<br \/>\n1 Independent<\/p>\n<p>The one independent is Charlie Birks, who resigned as a Lib-Dem, about six months ago.  The current Mayor, Cllr Andy Foulsham is not standing again for the town council. Neither is the leader of the council, Cllr Sam Bowring.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/04\/SoPN-Vale-District-Wards-A3-Website.pdf\">candidates for the district council<\/a>, with 10 Abingdon seats, there are:<br \/>\n10 Lib-Dems<br \/>\n10 Conservatives<br \/>\n7 Labour<br \/>\n3 Greens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Abbey Ward and so far have had a visit from one candidate, Cheryl Briggs, the Green Candidate. Looking at the list of candidates for the Abbey Ward, no Conservatives are contesting the two seats. Normally Lib-Dems and Conservatives would contest every seat. Even stranger is that in Northcourt Ward, the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}